H.J. Cronin Quotes

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop.

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

Writing is a job: you must show up.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well.

It seems like a cultural shift - you see less and less bands coming up and more people leaving.

I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

The heart, once broken, stayed broken.

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

Turn lemons into lemonaid

So, at the last, a story.

Behind every great hatred is a love story.

Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.

And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing, " Genevieve worried. "What would I tell them?""Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, " said Bloom.

It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.

Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?

I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.

Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.

Everybody has a dream, to make that dream a reality, one must work hard.

Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

You are Entering the Red Zone.Proceed at Own Risk.When in Doubt Run.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing, ' Genevieve worried. 'What would I tell them? 'Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, said Bloom.

One person can make a difference, and every person should try.

All things found their ends.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow but only saps today of its strength.

He has to come to it on his own.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.